Talk and Social Theory Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life

Talk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of 'talk' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples - a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college - enhances the book's appeal to a non-specialist as well as a specialist audience; reviews the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in social theory and in the sociolinguistic study of talk.

ISBN:	9780745624716
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Published date:	01 Apr 2004
DEWEY:	302.2242
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	364g
Height:	152mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	16mm

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